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Fitzwilliam Street Lower : view towards Merrion Square

In collection  Domestic Architecture of Georgian Dublin Collection

Resource description

Origin information
Fitzwilliam Street Lower, Dublin
Date created:
Type of Resource
still image
Physical description
1 still image : digital
3437x5453 pixels — Digital origin: reformatted digital — Reformating quality: preservation (image/tiff) (image/jp2) (image/jpeg)
File details: Original file in TIFF format; a JPEG2000 file has been derived from the original using Kakadu software; JPEG files in various resolutions have been derived for the original using ImageMagick software.
Irish Virtual Research Library and Archives (PRTLI-funded project), UCD Library, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
Digital image captured from the original 35mm slide in the slide library of the UCD School of Art History and Cultural Policy
Note
Development of Fitzwilliam (now Pembroke) estate instigated by 6th Viscount Fitzwilliam from 1752. Building on Fitzwilliam Street Lower commenced c1780.
Note
The view is terminated by the National Maternity Hospital, built in 1933 to designs of W H Byrne & Son. Behind, and just visible, is the Gasometer, taken down c1993. The controversial offices of the Electricity Supply Board, designed in 1965 by Stephenson Gibney & Associates, is on the immediate right.
Languages
English  
Genre
Slide
Subject
Cities & towns--Ireland--Dublin   linked data (lctgm)
City planning--Ireland--Dublin   linked data (lctgm)
Social & civic facilities--Ireland--Dublin   linked data (lctgm)
Fitzwilliam Street LowerFitzwilliam Street Lower, Dublin, Co. Dublin, Ireland--ie
Location
University College Dublin. UCD School of Art History and Cultural Policy. Domestic Architecture of Georgian Dublin Collection. UCDAHCP0078
Original item
Fitzwilliam Street Lower
Record source
Metadata creation date: 2009-10-06 — Descriptions created by IVRLA project staff, UCD Library, University College Dublin.

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